Exploration

The two companies aim to provide a comprehensive, real time solution for marine logistics management that significantly reduces costs and risks.

Energean Oil & Gas has received approval for its Field Development Plan for the development of the Kataloko field in Western Greece.

Lundin Petroleum AB has announced that its wholly owned subsidiary Lundin Norway AS has commenced drilling of exploration well 7220/6-3 on the Børselv prospect in PL609 on the Loppa High in the southern Barents Sea.

Surveying contractors have been engaged for the initial work programme on the 3D seismic survey and are expected to commence work within days.

As a result of this agreement, CGG will shortly commence acquisition of a new multi-client survey of up to 40 000 km2 of 3D data over the Beira High in the Zambezi Delta.

Lundin Petroleum AB has announced that Statoil AS has completed the Korpfjell exploration well 7435/12-1 in PL859 in the southeastern Barents Sea. The well proved a small, non-commercial gas discovery.

The Goanna licence is located in the northern part of the Norwegian North Sea, near the border with the UK and adjacent to the giant producing Statfjord and Snorre fields.

CGG has announced the start of work on Espirito Santo IV, a large BroadSeis™ 3D multi-client survey in the deep and ultra-deep waters of the Espirito Santo Basin offshore Brazil.

Statoil Petroleum AS, operator of production licence 124, is about to complete the drilling of wildcat well 6507/8-9.

The 340 km2 3D seismic survey was acquired offshore Sarawak, Malaysia, for Roc Oil using a triple source array with simultaneous recording by ocean-bottom nodes and a towed-streamer spread, all from a single seismic vessel.

FairfieldNodal announces it is in advanced discussions with Thalassa Holdings to acquire WGP Group Ltd., a premier provider of marine geophysical services headquartered in the U.K.

Australian geoscience company Frogtech Geoscience has announced the release of TERRAFLUX, an innovative multi-client heat flow product, providing a unique new approach to assess regional heat flow variability for petroleum system modelling.

The FairfieldNodal and Schlumberger WesternGeco multiclient joint venture project in the southern Delaware Basin of West Texas, known as Coyanosa Phase I, is scheduled to begin shooting late-August.

Wireline and mud logs have confirmed 4 zones of interpreted gas saturated sandstones at field production levels (depths from approximately 1000 metres (3300 ft) to 1560 m (5100 ft).

The API has urged the US administration to expand the next five-year offshore oil and natural gas leasing program to include areas of the Outer Continental Shelf, including the Atlantic, Eastern Gulf of Mexico, and Arctic.